Actually yes. Only Poland is higher than many parts of Canada per this site, and Czech, Finland, and Romania are roughly the same depending on where in Canada you look:
https://evictradon.org/radon/radon-in-canada/
That is crazy, wow.
Software engineering in Canada in the 2000s. Most of the labs in my university ran Linux, at least in the engineering, math, and science areas of campus.
Personally I ran, depending on the year, LFS (Linux from Scratch), Slackware, or Gentoo (which still lives on that laptop today but also it hasn’t been booted or connected to a network in like 10 years).
I think there was only one lab with Windows. We also had a lab of Solaris machines but I bet those are gone now.
No idea what Law, Nursing, and other faculties in the other side of campus used.
My friends mom died from the (or one of the few) lung cancer you can get even if you were never a smoker. Her sewing room was in the basement and they think it may have been due to above average radon levels.
1 in a million chance or something, but apparently more likely with exposure to some things, including radon.
Oh absolutely having an aggressive manager and skip will help you with bonuses and promotions. But they don’t force managers to give people low scores anymore.
While the management tool had a weird slider and score system (you could give a number between 0 and 1000 IIRC), the general terminology was you could get between 0 and 200, indicative of how you compared to the average person at your level. 100 meaning you did average per-say or completed about 100% of the work an average person could complete.
While not unheard of it was basically impossible to get 200% (required at least your skip/M2 and maybe your M3 to agree).
Last I heard (keep in mind this was 2023 or so) managers got around 105% or 110% of their bonus allocated for their team. Generally that meant you could give everyone “100” if you wanted, but practically it never worked out that way.
Also there were strict rules you couldn’t take from a more junior budget to give a more senior person a higher bonus. You could however take from a more senior budget and give it to a junior.
I. E. I couldn’t give two SWE1s 80 to give a SWE2 a 120. The reverse was allowed though.
Layoffs are generally done algorithmically. I’m not kidding. They don’t want to be sued. They follow all the legal rules otherwise (can’t layoff a US citizen without laying off a Visa employee first, etc).
Source: I worked there for 11 years, I was an IC but have many friends who are managers who would tell me how the system works, and have been laid off twice. The first time I found another position within MSFT but the most recent time, in December, I opted to take some time off and find something else.
Edit/addendum: when the managers get in the room for people discussions a lot of that is around promotions. Very little is bonuses. Bonuses are determined by your manager, then go up the chain. So your manager sets and signs off on your score. Then your M2 checks it and either sends it back if they don’t agree or signs off and sends it up. Then your M3. At the M3 and higher levels I suspect they don’t look too close but just make sure everything makes sense and the budgets balance.
Also: Country?
Or "Canada is the only one of the G7 countries… "
Microsoft got rid of that in 2014 or so, when Nadella took over.
Depending on what I needed I remember using AltaVista, AskJeeves, Dogpile, and I feel like later on MetaCrawler or something like that (would search multiple search engines for you and ordered them scored based on platform and relevancy iirc?)
Awesome thanks! It’s kinda been on the list but not super high up. But I’ll check it out!
So… I haven’t played the game, but does that mean the game was unfinished as it was?
Does it need the DLC to complete it? That’s… Both awful but sadly not unexpected these days.
The real question is what resolution. My 6900 XT with no FSR and no raytracing, at 1440p, could do 63fps average but sadly stuttered at times. I forget the exact graphics settings but generally high / ultra because I was pushing it to see if it would do it.
At 4k I’d probably get half that.
Capcom specifically does two releases of Monster Hunter by two different studios, sort of alternating, for this reason.
MH World and Icebreak were the “fancy PC / Console games”
Then MH Rise and Sunbreak were the “mobile” releases.
Now MH Wilds is another “fancy PC / Consoles” release.
So Capcom does actually account for this.
All UK machines, phones, and servers should just remove all root certificates. Can’t trust encryption right?
X509Brexit.
Then they wouldn’t have to interact with any part of the encrypted internet.
My understanding is 32-bit PhysX games are broken.
64-bit compiled games are fine.
It’s not that seamless depending on the content you usually consume.
I feel like I keep seeing the same single livestream trying to sell me a phone charger, and then roughly the same 5 or 6 videos trying to sell me a specific product over and over again.
As long as I don’t report or say “I keep seeing this ad” it will show me the same ones so they are easy to skip.
Usually it’s something I started watching until I realized it was an ad, but because I started watching it one time it thinks I’m interested so it will continually show it to me.
Once you spot them they are easy to skip. (at least, until they get better at masking then and then it will get harder).
Pretty sure that’s the internet archive which takes snapshots of websites.
You’re looking at the website x.com waaaay back in 1997, where they said they aren’t nearly the worst website on the internet. As opposed to now, where it is a cesspool of toxicity.
I’m by no means a huge VR user but I find the PSVR2 rendering based on your focus point to be a really neat feature for that reason.
Wherever you’re looking gets full resolution. Things in your perifory get downscaled. This helps the headset maintain max FPS at the full Hz.
Note: I don’t own one, I just think the tech for that is near.
From Alberta but not working there anymore. Found out somewhat recently, specifically in regards to Software, APEGA lost their protection on the word Engineer. Again, specifically in regards to Software.
Started doing this and I’ll never go back.
This is possibly regarding the updated OS that’s on SteamDeck, which is not built on the same distro of Linux as the older SteamOS from back in the day.
I love that my global settings has a whole section labelled Privacy, but I can’t disable this globally for all chats my account joins.
Instead I have to disable it for each chat individually.
What awful design WhatsApp (obviously on purpose so I’ll forget with new chats).
Well maybe this is the push that those friends will need to move to Signal…